HOMER LIWAG: Homer’s Magical Odyssey

A visual designer born in Montreal, raised in Cincinnati, now living in Las Vegas where he serves as co-director with David Copperfield and as David’s design director. Homer is often multi-tasking between conceptual drawing and design, cinematography, theatrical lighting design, script development, illusion staging, and video/music editing and sound design. Homer's illusion designs and cinematography have been featured in David's live show since 1993, several Emmy-award-winning television specials on CBS, and with David's top-rated luxury private island - Musha Cay. Red Safe, David Copperfield's new movie production company, finds Homer collaborating on design, camera blocking, and original concepts for films such as Steve Carell's comedy, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (hangman illusion), the hit Now You See Me and Paranormal Activity 4. Homer also designed the featured explosive escape in The Amazing Race season finale on CBS, as well as helped devise David Copperfield's vanish and reappearance with Robin Williams on The Crazy Ones. In this episode of the podcast, we discuss Homer’s design style and extraordinary attention to detail, and he shares stories of the responsibility of shooting all the photographs for the book David Copperfield’s History of Magic.